GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
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| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
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